GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

Small Heath and Sparkbrook Station: gwrsh1367

View showing two GWR rail mounted cranes installing girders to a new bridge to the south of Small Heath Station in March 1907. This work was part of the quadrupling of the main line track south of Birmingham Moor Street following the construction of the North Warwickshire Line. Notice that the temporary light weight flat bottom track in the foreground is fixed to the sleepers with spikes and not located in chairs. The four plank open wagon No.54104 in the foreground is typical of the goods wagons that the Great Western Railway adopted as their standard from 1888 to 1902. At the end of this period they had built 24,208 of these 10 ton capacity four plank open wagons. This particular wagon was built as part of Lot L679.

Robert Ferris

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